Sir, —I have recently returned from a visit to the Imperial War Museumin London. The display on the Home Front during the 1914–18 warincluded items relating to the Easter Rising. […]
Read More →Sir, —It is unfortunate that Paul Bew’s article in the last issue (HI17.4, July/Aug. 2009) should be entitled ‘The Blind Leading the Blind’.In it he says that, unlike Bernadette […]
Read More →Sir, —As a student of history and as someone forced out of my childhood home in North Howard Street during the 1969 pogroms, I came away from reading your special […]
Read More →Famine: a short history Cormac Ó Gráda (Princeton, $27.95) ISBN 9780691122373 Some time ago, before I went to Tanzania, I asked a class of adults who had returned to […]
Read More →Bulmer Hobson and the nationalist movement in twentieth-century Ireland Marnie Hay (Manchester University Press, £55) ISBN 9780719079870 Marnie Hay begins her study of Bulmer Hobson (1883–1969) by claiming him […]
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